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A new study by John M. Newman of the University of Memphis and Andres Sawicki of the University of Miami, the first empirical examination at scale of generative AI terms and conditions, finds that broad royalty-free lice…
An a16z partner created a fictional 19-year-old sorority girl named Janie for Bama Rush using ChatGPT and $100 in AI credits, and within a week, the fake account gained 1,300 followers on TikTok without being detected. T…
A low-budget Chinese animated film, 'Niu Lai' (translated as 'The Cow Is Coming' or 'The Ox Comes'), made by director Xin Yumeng and his mother, screenwriter Sun Lifang, has become an unlikely box-office hit, earning ove…
CartoType developer Graham Asher has released a demo of the CartoType Field Assistant, an offline Spatial RAG pipeline running natively on an iPhone that combines local language models with offline mapping. The system us…
A new website, dontpaste.ai, urges people to stop sending unedited ChatGPT output as replies to questions, arguing that recipients want the sender's own take, not a generic model answer. The site advises using AI as a dr…
A 1960s publicity portrait of Hammer Films actress Veronica Carlson has been altered by a generative AI image editor, which superimposed a plastic comb onto her hand, and the flawed result is being sold on eBay. The vend…
Replit launched Free Mode powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, eliminating per-token billing for users and allowing them to build small agents and prototypes at zero marginal cost. This move breaks the pay-per-call model fo…
Google AI Overviews optimalisatie is in 2026 de kern van organische groei voor B2B SaaS-bedrijven, waarbij content moet worden gestructureerd voor Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) en Information Gain. Volgens Marketi…
Tweetback, an AI-powered X growth extension, is available for $49.99 (regularly $89.00) for a lifetime subscription to its Starter Plan. The tool generates AI-drafted replies, original post ideas, and a watchlist for tra…
A developer trained a speech model that parrots speech using Pink Trombone, a vocal tract simulator, and released it at samuel.vvolhejn.com with code on GitHub. The model was trained using spare GPU capacity from Kyutai,…
Kuaishou reported that its Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in revenue in Q2 2026, up over 200% year on year and 30% from the previous quarter, while total revenue rose 1.4% to RMB35.…
A year-long study of 3.52 million code changes at a large unnamed technology company found that AI-generated C++ code, while correct and less likely to be reverted, is inefficient, using nearly twice as many loops, makin…
AI-generated assets are flooding online marketplaces, but buyers are snubbing them for human-made products, according to a CGTrader report that found AI-generated models accounted for just $1 out of every $90 in revenue …
Studio Ghibli has clarified it has no official stance against AI, has no plan regarding the technology, and does not know what co-founder Hayao Miyazaki is working on beyond his daily attendance at the office. The statem…
Waymo announced on Aug 20, 2026, that its Ojai self-driving cars now integrate Gemini, allowing passengers to control music, cabin temperature, request neighborhood information, or ask the car to pull over, though Gemini…
Amit Ranjan praised a parody video of the 'Downfall' scene, calling it Oscar-worthy and highlighting its commentary on AI's impact on the world and vibe coding. The video, shared on X, garnered 206.8K views and 351 repos…
A Hugging Face community member asked developers to share their biggest challenges moving LLM and generative AI projects from prototype to production, citing issues like reliability and evaluation. The post invites pract…
An instructor at the Sergeants Major Academy reports that generative AI is creating an academic divide between students who effectively use AI tools and those who do not, posing challenges to fairness, critical thinking,…
A developer detailed a system using AI agents to automate a niche DevOps newsletter, generating about $500 per month from sponsorships and affiliate links. The pipeline uses Make.com, OpenAI's GPT-4o, Airtable, and Beehi…
Kuaishou's Kling AI video-generation business generated more than RMB850 million in revenue in Q2 2026, up over 200% year on year and 30% quarter on quarter, contributing to a first-half total of RMB1.5 billion. Kuaishou…